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This book focuses on a step-by-step approach to creating change within organizations from an inside-out developmental process. Traditional change processes for organizations occur through an external stimulus that demands change. This book suggests that there is a fallacy in changing for change's ...

This book focuses on a step-by-step approach to creating change within organizations from an inside-out developmental process. Traditional change processes for organizations occur through an external stimulus that demands change. This book suggests that there is a fallacy in changing for change's sake, and starts from the premise that dysfunction is created because the individual or the organizational system is out of balance. The book focuses on how to create balance--congruence within the organization and the person through an analytical and practical approach. The key is recognizing that no one style or belief structure is more correct than another; rather, that the style is congruent and consistent for the organization and the person.

Organizations can be viewed as living entities and their leaders as parents, stewards, even physicians. From "living systems theory", as it is known, Tracy provides ways to help manage and guide the organization through its growth and development, and assist in attaining the organization's goals. In ...

Organizations can be viewed as living entities and their leaders as parents, stewards, even physicians. From "living systems theory", as it is known, Tracy provides ways to help manage and guide the organization through its growth and development, and assist in attaining the organization's goals. In doing so, Tracy covers all of the essential topics in management theory and practice - motivation, power, efficiency, effectiveness, communication, control, conflict, stress, leadership, change - but in the clarifying light of this new, dynamic theoretical approach. Organizations are alive or they should be, says Tracy, and thus they derive many of their most important characteristics from the genetic makeup of their members. In fact, they display the same essential human processes and structures. To lay the foundation for understanding the living organization, Tracy first explains what these processes and structures are. From there, he goes on to tackle the overarching question: How should a living organization,be managed? When asked as a practical, results-seeking question, it produces answers that echo much of the "natural wisdom" that has been acquired about conventional management methods - flaws that can be diagnosed as ills and corrected, cured. Tracy's book is not only a "treatise" (out of necessity) and perhaps even a polemic; it is also a manual on the "care and feeding of living organizations". The result is a readable, challenging, ultimately useful resource for management in all capacities in private and public sector organizations.

A scholarly analysis of Marine Corps survival as seen through the lens of three different organizational theories, this volume is a sourcebook in management and public administration for the "way of seeing" view. Marutollo, intimately familiar with the Marine ethic, provides a practical ...

A scholarly analysis of Marine Corps survival as seen through the lens of three different organizational theories, this volume is a sourcebook in management and public administration for the "way of seeing" view. Marutollo, intimately familiar with the Marine ethic, provides a practical demonstration of how management theories can be regarded as different ways of seeing rather than predictive schemes. Models used are Population Ecology, Resource Dependence, and Structural Contingency Models. This volume is a one of a kind approach to interpreting management theories.